Wyoming’s RIDE (Reimagining and Innovating the Delivery of Education) Initiative: Evaluation Report
The Wyoming RIDE (Reimagining and Innovating the Delivery of Education) initiative is the inaugural program of Wyoming’s Future of Learning Partnership, a state-level consortium working together to support innovative education across the state. The RIDE initiative created an opportunity for districts to update key elements of instruction and assessment to be more student-centered and aligned with the Wyoming Profile of a Graduate (Wyoming Future of Learning Partnership, 2024). Twenty-one districts (almost half of Wyoming’s 48 districts) and three community colleges have participated in the RIDE initiative since its inception in the 2023-24 school year.
We selected four deeply-implementing districts to feature in case studies, in consultation with 2Revolutions (the initiative’s lead design partner). These districts were all in their second year of RIDE involvement, but varied in geography, demographics, student-centered learning focus, and implementation approach. In exploring these districts’ RIDE experiences, we examined how they made sense of and enacted student-centered practices within their local contexts. We were especially interested in how leaders and educators defined what student-centered learning meant in their communities, what supported or hindered their implementation progress, and how early changes showed up in leadership, instruction, and student experiences.
In addition to the four case studies, we also used data from interviews conducted with professional learning providers, state, district, and school leaders, and survey data from 150 teachers and 800 students, to explore broader cross-district themes.